Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire (Classics and Contemporary Thought) (Volume 6)

The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approaching this problem, Clifford Ando does not ask the ever-fashionable question, Why did the Roman empire fall? Rather, he asks, Why did the empire last so long? Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on Roman military power but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified. This consensus was itself the product of a complex conversation between the central government and its far-flung peripheries. Ando investigates the mechanisms that sustained this conversation, explores its contribution to the legitimation of Roman power, and reveals as its product the provincial absorption of the forms and content of Roman political and legal discourse. Throughout, his sophisticated and subtle reading is informed by current thinking on social formation by theorists such as Max Weber, J?rgen Habermas, and Pierre Bourdieu. CONTENTS......Page 10 ILLUSTRATIONS......Page 12 PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14 ABBREVIATIONS......Page 18 CHAPTER ONE Introduction......Page 26 PART ONE Ancient and Modern Contexts......Page 42 CHAPTER TWO Ideology in the Roman Empire......Page 44 CHAPTER THREE The Roman Achievement in Ancient Thought......Page 74 PART TWO Consensus and Communication......Page 96 CHAPTER FOUR The Communicative Actions of the Roman Government......Page 98 CHAPTER FIVE Consensus in Theory and Practice......Page 156 CHAPTER SIX The Creation of Consensus......Page 200 CHAPTER SEVEN Images of Emperor and Empire......Page 231 PART THREE FromImperium to Patria......Page 300 CHAPTER EIGHT Orbis Terrarum and Orbis Romanus......Page 302 CHAPTER NINE The King Is a Body Politick . . . for that a Body Politique Never Dieth......Page 361 CHAPTER TEN Conclusion......Page 431 WORKS CITED......Page 438 A......Page 476 C......Page 477 G......Page 478 M......Page 479 S......Page 480 V......Page 481 Z......Page 482 A......Page 484 D......Page 487 E......Page 488 F......Page 492 H......Page 493 J......Page 494 L......Page 495 M......Page 496 N......Page 497 O......Page 498 P......Page 499 R......Page 501 S......Page 502 T......Page 503 W......Page 507 B......Page 508 C......Page 509 F......Page 510 I......Page 511 M......Page 512 P......Page 513 R......Page 515 S......Page 517 W......Page 519 The Roman empire remains unique. Although Rome claimed to rule the world, it did not. Rather, its uniqueness stems from the culture it created and the loyalty it inspired across an area that stretched from the Tyne to the Euphrates. Moreover, the empire created this culture with a bureaucracy smaller than that of a typical late-twentieth-century research university. In approaching this problem, Clifford Ando does not ask the ever-fashionable question, Why did the Roman empire fall? Rather, he asks, Why did the empire last so long? Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on Roman military power but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified. This consensus was itself the product of a complex conversation between the central government and its far-flung peripheries. Ando investigates the mechanisms that sustained this conversation, explores its contribution to the legitimation of Roman power, and reveals as its product the provincial absorption of the forms and content of Roman political and legal discourse. Throughout, his sophisticated and subtle reading is informed by current thinking on social formation by theorists such as Max Weber, Jürgen Habermas, and Pierre Bourdieu. "Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire argues that the longevity of the empire rested not on Roman military power, but on a gradually realized consensus that Roman rule was justified. This consensus was itself the product of a complex conversation between the central government and its far-flung peripheries. Ando investigates the mechanisms that sustained this conversation, explores its contribution to the legitimization of Roman power, and reveals as its product the provincial absorption of the forms and content of Roman political and legal discourse.". "Ando brings to bear a magisterial command of Roman historical sources; he marshals papyrological, numismatic, artistic, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence, as well as historical and literary. Throughout, his sophisticated and subtle reading is informed by current thinking on social formation by theorists such as Max Weber, Jurgen Habermas, and Pierre Bourdieu.". "As he illuminates the relationship between the imperial government and the empire's provinces, Ando deepens our understanding of one of the most striking phenomena in the history of government."--BOOK JACKET. Clifford Ando. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 413-449) And Indexes.